I hope to see you at the Bridgewater Library at 1 Vogt Drive from 6:30 to 8:30 March 1 for our monthly In Stitches session.

This is a chance to get together and socialize while knitting and crocheting our own projects. We have donated needles and yarn for anyone who wants them, and if anyone needs support on their projects, we're here to help. It's not really a knitting or crochet class, but if a beginner wants to learn, then come.

I also hope to see many of you at the Makers Day knitting and crochet session at the Raritan Borough Public Library from 10 a.m. to noon Saturday, March 3, when we will be making baby hats (any color, any pattern) for Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital Somerset in Somerville.

You can stop by the library ahead of time and pick up a free pattern and get a head start. On Saturday, we'll be meeting in the upstairs conference room.

Thanks for what you've brought me

I want to thank you all for what came in last week, including 13 more baby blankets, three more dolls and three 30-gallon plastic bags filled with hats and scarves, including purple baby hats.

Someone also emailed me from a church group to offer a lot of yarn. Please email me at the address below, or call me after March 7 at the phone number below if your group needs yarn for charity knitting, especially if you are knitting or crocheting some of our In Stitches projects.

I took the 13 baby blankets to the Division of Child Protection and Permanency in Somerville. I also had seven bably blankets from the previous week, and those went to the Presbyterian Church in Dayton to be shared with some homeless families that are living temporarily in a motel in South Brunswick.

The Prevent Child Abuse NJ office in New Brunswick is going to pick up all the purple baby hats for the annual Click for Babies campaign next week. The campaign doesn't start until April, but we already have dozens of purple hats from three different sources.

By the way, I am hoping we can do another daylong stitch-a-thon at Brunswick Square Mall in East Brunswick to make more purple baby hats because we had so much fun last April.

The hats and scarves that came in last week are really too late for this season. I have mixed feelings about them because we'll need them next fall and winter. But please, no more winter hats and scarves until October. PLEASE. I have nowhere to store them, and if you could see how my cubicle at work gets buried with all these hats and scarves, you'd take pity on me. I need my limited space for current projects.

Dolls for foster girls

I'm also accpeting 18-inch dolls such as My Life, Modern Girl, Journey Girl and Our Generation that we will give to foster girls. These dolls are all the same size as American Girl dolls, but they are much less expensive. We have a good collection of extra doll clothes to give the girls, all this particular size, and some readers are making more. Keeping the size standard makes our program so much easier.

The dolls will be distributed through the Court Appointed Special Advocats (CASA) program. Our goal is to get 25 dolls, predominantly African-American and Latina, for the girls in the CASA SHaW (Somerset, Hunterdon and Warren counties) program.

If we get more dolls, we can share them with Middlesex County, as we did last year.